Snap a photo on your Galaxy Nexus and seamlessly share it from your computer, tablet, or other devices. Signing into your Google Account lets you wirelessly sync and backup your contacts, photos, calendar, and more securely in the cloud. Calling all cloud dwellers:﻿

And how do I access my like backed-up photos when I have photo sync on? Is it different from the auto photo upload function of Google+? Or they are actually the same thing, so when I disable photo upload in Google+ nothing will be synced?﻿

+Jeff Schultz in ICS it does, even in the stock browser. Your bookmarks are linked to your Google account, so you can access them from Chrome on your desktop or on your phone, or the default ICS Android browser.﻿

+Thomas Christensen 2048x2048 is a very large picture in all cases but super wide panoramas, though. Considering the auto-uploaded 2048 pictures don't count against your storage limits, I think having to upload them manually to get the full size is reasonable.﻿

+Keith Heard Most phones today have 5-8-12 MP sensors, so the resizing degrades the pictures rather much. I agree that a lot of pictures shared do not need to be full resolution, but there should be a "show full resolution" option and the auto-upload should have an option to enable full resolution (it was there in the beginning!).

The sync function is there to also have a synchronized backup of your contacts, calendar, apps installed, phone setup etc. - in that light it doesn't make sense that the picture backup degrades the quality of the pictures, the user should have the option to upload the original pictures and use the paid storage...﻿

+Thomas Christensen they can, and I do. It's just not done automatically. I use Picasa on my desktop, save all my pictures to my computer in folders that are synced online, and they all go up at full resolution. When I got a new computer, I just downloaded full albums to it so I had quick access to them, and set the sync back up.

I understand your reasoning, and agree that the option would be nice to have, but I think the current solution is sufficient.﻿

The 2048 limit is because auto-uploaded pictures at that resolution do not count against your storage limit. You can upload full-size photos if you do it manually, but they will count against your storage.﻿

I like the ability to include photos from my phone directly into my blogger posts. No more download, upload or finding links. Since my blogger posts go to my Facebook, Google+ and email newsletters, my pictures are getting delivered to my audience without me ever having to upload or download them manually.﻿

People like me who have been hooked to all these features of Android can't even think of any other phones, these features just make life so much simpler. +Android you should advertise more about all the things that #Android can do, I have seen so many Android users who are more or less oblivious about these features and compare there experience with iPhone without even using all what Android has to offer. I have seen people using Android phones without even knowing that it can be used for navigation also, this is just one of innumerable features.﻿

How about apps data, full res photos, SMS/MMS, call logs, task list, notes (and those saved in gmail by ios), VPN settings, bookmarks from google toolbar, and other phone settings? I have to backup and restore everything when switching to Gnex. Most of them could be transferred when I switch phones running old school Symbian. Will google drive support those backup in the future?﻿

Love my nexusApp data is already there but not many app use it. I Believe the low res contact photo is due to some standard contact data format which outlook likes. Unfortunately it only allows very low res pics so its not as straight forward fix as you might think.﻿

+Android I wish you can push Samsung to launch Galaxy Nexus in India. It's a major Android market & courtesy Samsung ( 5 months after international release ) , Galaxy Nexus is still not launched in India. Thus depriving Indian users of the vanilla #ICS and flagship Google Android 4.0 phone﻿

I wish they will support 256x256 pictures in contacts (ics standard), and step up from ancient 96x96 resolution.The only hope for you to have hi res photo in a contact is that person to have a Google+ account, not to many chances with older people like parents and so on.. :). To summarize, if you sync back from cloud (new phoe, new FW, etc) all your contact pictures will be in 96x96 resolution :(﻿

I am a lucky Galaxy Nexus owner. But I cannot wait to get rid of ICS 4.0.2 bugs. I cannot send mails from the build-in e-mail app when the account is configured as Exchange box. When can I expect an upgrade ?﻿

+Daniel Walesiak Probably not in the near future. They got 4.0.4 working for a few device version, but they seem to have forgotten others. Well over a month now, and I'm still not getting my update on a stock GSM Galaxy Nexus, ICL53F...So it's "NEARLY the latest Android software" here. Thankfully 4.0.2 is not all that buggy for me.﻿

galaxy nexus might be the shittiest deal i have ever made in my life. Even my lumia 800 has better support than this phone. I am in scandinavia and for some completely cluster fucked reason i havent recieved any update since november. 4.0.2 is still running for me. I am beyond disapointed with the way google/samsung has handled this :(﻿

About Galaxy Nexsus:can you please cancel the limit of the buy website only to USA?and why you not accept an Israeli international credit card?(i want to buy the Nexsus Galaxy and ship it to an adress in USA)﻿